Smart Digital Environments for Monitoring Precision Medical Interventions and Wearable Observation and Assistance

Various recurring medical events encourage innovative patient well-being through connected health strategies based on an elegant digital environment that prioritizes safety, comfort, and beneficial outcomes for both patients and medical staff. This narrative review article aims to investigate and highlight the potential of advanced, reliable, high-precision, and secure medical observation and intervention missions. These involve a smart digital environment integrating smart materials combined with smart digital monitoring. These medical implications concern robotic surgery and drug delivery through image-assisted implantation, as well as wearable observation and assistive tools. The former requires high-precision motion and positioning strategies, while the latter enables sensing, diagnosis, monitoring, and central task assistance. Both advocate minimally invasive or noninvasive procedures and precise supervision through autonomously controlled processes with staff participation. The article analyzes the requirements and evolution of medical interventions, robotic actuation technologies for positioning actuated and self-moving instances, monitoring of image-assisted robotic procedures using digital twins and augmented digital tools, and wearable medical detection and assistance devices. A discussion including future research perspectives and conclusions complete the article. The different themes addressed in the proposed paper, although self-sufficient, are supported by examples of the literature, allowing a deeper understanding.